Single-spaced AND formattable lines in Confluence.

Question

Hello,

I am trying to find a method to paste multi-line text content into a Confluence page such that the content remains formattable.

I have read this similar answered post, which offers two approaches:

* Using shift+enter to avoid double spaced lines when typing content.
* Using {no formatting} macro.

The first allows formatting, but is not applicable to pasting content comprised of multiple lines.  The second is good for pasting multi line, single spaced content, but allows no formatting

I have tried shift+ctrl+v, but it did not work.

Is there a technique to paste content into Confluence such that it is single spaced and can still be formatted?

Thanks

Bill Bailey · Answer

What formatting do you want to do?

Your only other easy solution is to delete the space between each line and then enter soft-returns (shift+Enter) - this inserts break tags (br).

What is happening is that when you paste, it is interpreting the returns at the end of each line as a new paragraph (wrapping each line in p tags). The default CSS shipped with Confluence adds space between p tags.

A more elegant solution is to create a user macro that wraps the content in a classed div tag. Then update the Confluence CSS to remove the p tag space for that CSS class. Then you can do what you want.

Rick Blum · Answer

{Code Block} does not allow formatting.

Bill Bailey · Answer

For this type of text (terminal output), I just insert it into a code macro (set to plain text), no title. Then you can easily delete any extra lines if they occur.